Car frame



J. D. BENBOW April 22 1924.

CAR FRAME Filed Feb. 5 1923 atented Apr. 22, 1924.

Ts stares JAMES ID. BENBOW, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB '10 HESTEENWHEELED SCRAPER COMPANY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

GAR FRAME.

Application filed February 5, 1923. Serial No. 616,993.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES D. BENBOW, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain, new and useful. Improvements in Car Frames, of whichthe following is a specification. reference being had to theaccompanyingdrawings.

This invention relates to an improved construction of the frames of carsand more particularly to the frames of dump-cars of the type wherein thecar-body is tilted laterally to discharge the contents thereof at oneside of the track upon which the car stands. Such cars are necessarilysubjected to very rough usage, and the object of my invention is toprovide an improved construction and arrangement of the frame members ofthe carbody that will enable it to better withstand the shocks and jarsincident to its manner of use. I accomplish this object as illustratedin the drawing and hereinafter par-- ticularly described. That which Ibelieve to be newiwill be pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, 7 I F'gQl is an end elevation of a side-dump carembodying my improvements, the body of the car being also shown bydotted lines so in a dumping position;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-section taken substantially on the line ofFig. 1;

Fig. 3 is-a detail, being a perspective View illustrating the mannerofconnecting one of the vertical end bars of the car-body framewith'oneof the sills. of such frame;

Fig. 4 is a view of the parts shown in Fig. 3 as seen when looking at anend of the car, as in Fig. 1; V

Fig. 5 is another view of the parts shown in 4 as viewed from theright-hand side of said Fig. 4:, some parts being in section; and n Fig.6 is a horizontal section taken at the line 6-6 of Fig. 4. I

Referring to the several figures of the drawings,10 indicates acar-truck, the two wheels thereof that are shown being indicated by 11.Pivotally mounted upon the car-truck is a car-body, here indicatedgenerally by 12, and pivotally connected in any suitable way with thetruck to adapt it to be tilted so as to discharge its load at one side.The type of car illustrated is one wherein the body may be dumped ateither CFI side, and the gates at such sides are indicated by 13. Suchgates are automatically operated by the movement of the tar-body througha lever system at each end of the car, which may be as here illustratedor otherwiseall of such mechanism being well known, and therefore notneeding description.

Turning now to the features which characterize my invention, letindicates a plurality of longitu(finally-extending sills beneath thefloor of the car, two of such sills in the construction shown beingprovided at each side of the longitudinal center of the car. Each ofthese sills has a general resemblance to an ordinaryI-beam but,differing from such I-beams in that the upper and lower heads or flangesare considerably wider, and consequently give to the beam an appearancethat in cross-section more nearly resembles the letter H, andI shall,therefore, designate them ti-shaped sills or beams. At

each of its outer ends each of these longitudinally-extending H shapedsills has its upper head or fiange cut away at one side of the verticalweb of the sill so as to provide a rectangular notch, as best shown inFig. 6 at 15. 16 indicates vertical, frame bars, one being connectedwith and rising from each end of each of the said H shaped sills. Eachof these vertical bars 16 is so formed as to provide an intermediateportion from which project laterally oppositelydirected flanges wherebythe bar in crosssection approximately resembles the letter Z, andwilltherefore be hereinafter referred to" as Z-shaped bars. EachZ-shaped bar is of a size to fit snugly in one of the notches 15, withthe result that, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, one of its turned memberslies opposite and against the central portion of the H-shaped sill. Whenthe Z-shaped bar is so locateed then it will project down far enough sothat the ends of its two parts that lie Within the notch 15 rest uponthe lower head of the sill, as clearly indicated in Fig. 3, and with itsouter part that lies opposite the end of such sill extending completelyover the web of the sill. This construction of the sill 14: and thevertical bar 16 enables them to be riveted together by means of rivets17 that pass through the wide web of the sill and through the centralportion of the bar 16, and also enables the firm riveting thereto of aheavy angular bracket 18,

' bracket and'through the upper head of the sill passes a rivet 19,while the vertical wall of the bracket is secured to the central por.tion of the Z-shaped bar 16 by a rivet 20. The parts 14 and 16 areadditionally secured together and the several sets of frame members 14and 16 connected together by the riveting thereto of an angle-ironcross-strip 21 which rests upon the upper heads of the several sills 14and to which sill-heads the cross-strip is riveted by rivets 22otherrivets 23 securing the other flange of the strip 21 to the adjacentmember of each z-shaped bar. The lower edge portion of th end wall 2 1o1 the car-body is interposed between the cross-strip 21 and bar 16, asshown in Fig. 3, and is there secured by the rivets 23. As shown in Fig1, this wall 24 is further secured by other'rivets 25 that pass throughit and the adjacent turned sections of the bars 16.

From the foregoing description of the con struction and arrangement ofthe longitudinal sills and the bars that rise therefrom,

it will be seen that a construction of frame is provided that isexceedingly strong, and that by reason thereof the car-body as a wholewill be so braced and heldas to be adapted to very strongly resist thedestructive effects of the shocks and jars to which the rough usage ofthese cars constantly subject them.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isV 1. A car-frame comprising a metal sill consisting of an H-shaped beamhaving an angular notch in itsupper head at onevside of its central web,in combination with an approximately Z-shaped vertical bar seated insaid notch with its central portion lying against and secured to oneface of the central web of the beam and one of its members extendingover the end of said web.

2. A car-frame comprising in combination a metal sill member consistingof an H: shaped beam having an angular notch at an 3. A car-framecomprising in combination a metal sill consisting of an H-shaped beamhaving an angular notch in its upper head at one side of its centralweb, an approximately Z-shaped vertical bar seated in said notch withits central portion lying against and secured to one face of the centralweb of the beam and one of its members extending over the end of saidweb, and an angular bracket lying upon and secured tothe upper head ofthe beam and also secured to said vertical bar.

41. A car-frame comprising a plurality of metal sills each consisting ofan H-shaped beam having an angular notch in each end of its upper headat oneside of the central web of the beam, in combination with aplurality of approximately Z-shaped vertical bars each seated in one ofsaid notches with its central portion lying against and secured tooneface of the central web of the adjacent beam, and means extendingover and secured to said beams and also secured to said bars. a

5. A car-frame comprising in combination a. plurality of parallel sillseach consisting of an H-shaped beam having an angular notch in eachend'of its upper head at one side of the central web of the beam, anapproximately Z-shaped vertical bar seated in each. of said notches withits central portion lying against and securedto one face of the centralweb of the adjacent beam, and an angular cross-strip resting upon andsecured to the upper heads of the several beams and also secured to eachof said vertical bars. 7 1 7 JAMES D. BENBOW.

